Co-organized by Aranya Art Centre and Owspace, and curated by Taikang Space, the exhibition “Long Day” invites eleven young artists who are active in contemporary art field. Through various media, these artists explore the relative perception and personal experience of time and daily life from the perspective of visual art.
Co-organized by Aranya Art Centre and Owspace, and curated by Taikang Space, the exhibition “Long Day” invites eleven young artists who are active in contemporary art field. Through various media, these artists explore the relative perception and personal experience of time and daily life from the perspective of visual art.
This is an exhibition about time, where it is not referred to as an abstract concept, but a concrete day shared by all the people: morning, noon, dusk and sunset. Here, one day is divided into different chapters, while its original, natural meanings are eventually linked and magnified. They constitute not only a 24-hour period that can repeat endlessly, but also intimate moments with different textures in everyone’s life experience.
The exhibition is not only about one day, but also about our time consciousness and the tolerance in how the seemingly transient and unchanging time structure embraces and transforms into a long journey. The condensed moments must go through thousands of ephemeras and accumulate day by day before adding up to a year. These subtle experiences penetrating into each day and night have left the traces that can transcend time.
Chen Ruofan
Botanical Bank: 54 Objects Transplanted
2023
Stainless steel, LED, video
400 × 400 × 400 cm
55:92 min.
Commissioned and produced by aranya plein air art project 2023
Installation view, aranya plein air art project
July 7th to October 29th, 2023
Photography Sun Shi
Courtesy of aranya plein air art project
Haegue Yang
Migratory DMZ Birds on Asymmetric Lens - Duiitt Duiitt Vessel (Gray-Backed Thrush)
2020
Soapstone, 3D printed resin
158 × 89 × 147 cm
Installation view, aranya plein art project
July 7th to October 29th, 2023
Photography Sun Shi
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
and aranya plein air art project
Robert Mapplethorpe
Self Portrait
1981
Silver gelatin print
58.5 × 61 × 3.2 cm (framed)
Installation view, aranya plein air art project
July 7th to October 29th, 2023
Photography Sun Shi
Courtesy of aranya plein air art project
© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.
Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg · Seoul
Christine Sun Kim
A Permanent Tourist In A Foreign Language
2023
Inkjet printing on stainless-steel sign post
225 × 150 cm × 7 parts
Commissioned and produced by aranya plein air art project 2023
Installation view, aranya plein air art project
July 7th to October 29th, 2023
Photography Sun Shi
Courtesy of aranya plein air art project